Fall 2014 ﻿

Presenters' papers will be circulated 7-10 days in advance.Additional readings will be made available on Rebecca's carrel, Rock A33.

During the 2014-15 Academic Year the Mellon Workshop will run concurrently with the seminar "Borders and Boundaries in the post-Classical Mediterranean," organized by Reyhan Durmaz and funded by the Graduate International Colloquium Fund.

Friday, September 1212:00-2:00 pm

Scott DiGiulio, "Libraries in the High Roman Empire: Between Material and Metaphor"Location: Seminar Room, Department of Religious Studies

Friday, September 2612:00-2:00 pm

Ian Randall, "Break out the Fine China: Material Practices and Identity Mediation on Crete, Sicily, and Cyprus from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages"Also read:

Suleiman Mourad, Smith College"Complicating the Complicated: Conceptual Problems and Limitations in the Academic Study of the Crusades from the Perspective of Muslim Sources"***Sponsored by "Borders and Boundaries"***Please read:

Cobb, Paul. "Prologue: Damascus Crossroads." In his The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades (Oxford, 2014), 3-8.

Mourad, Suleiman, and James Lindsay. The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period (Brill, 2013), 82-100

Mourad, Suleiman. "Christians and Christianity in the Sīra of Muḥammad." in David Thomas and Barbara Roggema, et al., eds., Christian Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History I (Brill, 2009), 57-71.

Location: Seminar Room, Department of Religious Studies

Spring 2015

Thursday, January 293:00-5:00 pm

Andrew Tobolowsky, "Chapter 6: Conclusions" Please read:

Miller, James C. "Ethnicity and the Hebrew Bible: Problems and Prospects." Currents in Biblical Research 6.2 (2008): 170-213.